On 2021-Oct-02, Tom Lane wrote: > Yeah. I have been thinking of looking through the oldest CF entries > and proposing that we just reject any that look permanently stalled. > It doesn't do much good to leave things in the list when there's > no apparent interest in pushing them to conclusion. But I've not > done the legwork yet, and I'm a little worried about the push-back > that will inevitably result.
I was just going to say the same thing yesterday, and reference [1] when I did it once in 2019. I think it was a useful cleanup exercise. In hindsight, some of these patches were resubmitted later, and those are either still ongoing or are already committed. [1] https://postgr.es/m/20190930182818.GA25331@alvherre.pgsql (I did have the luxury of a local copy of the commitfest database, which is perhaps a service we could offer to CFMs to make their lives easier.) -- Álvaro Herrera 39°49'30"S 73°17'W — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Digital and video cameras have this adjustment and film cameras don't for the same reason dogs and cats lick themselves: because they can." (Ken Rockwell)
